I've had a CD crack in the middle and over time the centrifical force spread the crack to the data which is when it stopped working, but never have I heard of this happening.
I have seen this a couple of times. Modern drives have to spin at a serious lick to make 52X reading possible, and it places really extreme stresses on a disc. If it begins to fail at 7000+ RPM then there's enough energy stored to shatter it like this, and as you found, it usually takes the drive with it.
Guess that's a little more money you didn't need to spend. If you write to the manufacturer of the game with that pic and the serial number then they might replace it FOC.
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ReplyDeleteI've had a CD crack in the middle and over time the centrifical force spread the crack to the data which is when it stopped working, but never have I heard of this happening.
ReplyDeleteI have seen this a couple of times. Modern drives have to spin at a serious lick to make 52X reading possible, and it places really extreme stresses on a disc. If it begins to fail at 7000+ RPM then there's enough energy stored to shatter it like this, and as you found, it usually takes the drive with it.
ReplyDeleteGuess that's a little more money you didn't need to spend. If you write to the manufacturer of the game with that pic and the serial number then they might replace it FOC.